The hurricane-flood-landslide continuum

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1241-1247

  Negri, Andrew J ^a   Burkardt, Nina ^b   Golden, Joseph H ^c   Halverson, Jeffrey B ^a,d   Huffman, George J ^a,e   Larsen, Matthew C ^b   McGinley, John A ^c   Updike, Randall G ^f   Verdin, James P ^g   Wieczorek, Gerald F ^h  

^a NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^e SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^f DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^g EARTH RESOURCES OBSERVATION AND SCIENCE EROS CENTER   (United States)

^h U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; DOPPLER RADAR; FLOODS; HURRICANES; HYDROLOGY; LANDSLIDES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

FORECAST MODELS; LOCAL ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION SYSTEM (LAPS); NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (CO); PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION; PREDICTION SYSTEM; REGIONAL GUIDANCE PRODUCTS; TROPICAL RAIN SYSTEMS; U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY (CO);

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 25844503447     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-86-9-1241     Document Type: Article

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